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Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Wood, Abby K. Grose, Christian R.
Copyright Year	2018
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Do audits by executive agencies impact the behavior of those audited? Does revealing negative information about candidates affect electoral results and behavior? Institutions that encourage transparency, such as campaign finance disclosure, influence mass and elite behavior. We theorize that greater transparency provides information to voters during legislative campaigns about the character of candidates, and that information affects voter and legislator behavior. The U.S. Federal Election Commission conducted random audits of 10 percent of U.S. House members in the 1970s. This FEC program is the only randomized experiment an agency has conducted on federal legislators and their electorates. We find that legislators with audits yielding campaign finance violations did poorly in the general election relative to the control group. Audited incumbents seeking reelection whose audits revealed violations took more trips home to their districts. Increased transparency and candidate audits are effective policy tools that can increase elected officials’ efforts.
Related Links	https://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1429&context=usclwps-lss https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3236939
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3236939
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2018-08-21
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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